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I have moderate to severe acne scarring. They are all depressed scars that I have had for 3-5 years. As a 20 year old male, they really effect my self esteem and I constantly stress about them. About a year ago I bought a dermaroller and rolled too often, so I took it back to using a 1.5 mm once every six weeks. I went through five treatments and am now about 6 weeks since my last treatment. I applied copper peptide serum before rolling. I rolled using moderate pressure and until blood spots appeared.

My concern is that I have seen little to no improvement over this long course of treatments. Should I buy a smaller roller? Switch up my topical? Roll more often? Or just be patient?

Any good advice would be extremely helpful.

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I have moderate to severe acne scarring. They are all depressed scars that I have had for 3-5 years. As a 20 year old male, they really effect my self esteem and I constantly stress about them. About a year ago I bought a dermaroller and rolled too often, so I took it back to using a 1.5 mm once every six weeks. I went through five treatments and am now about 6 weeks since my last treatment. I applied copper peptide serum before rolling. I rolled using moderate pressure and until blood spots appeared.

My concern is that I have seen little to no improvement over this long course of treatments. Should I buy a smaller roller? Switch up my topical? Roll more often? Or just be patient?

Any good advice would be extremely helpful.

Patience is key. But you should also consider individually needling your scars and then roll on top of that. It can be very time consuming to treat all of your scars this way. What I do is break up my treatments in to sections so I can do an effective job. Forexample. Needle/roll an area one week and then the next week do another area. So maybe over the course of a month you treat everything.

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YES dermarolling does work, ONCE YOU FIND A REGIEME TO SUIT YOUR SKIN>

I am living proof that it works! rolling, combined with individual needling of deeper scars, with the use of products that I did alot of trial and error and research to find.

I designed my own routine, as have many others, and I stuck with it for over a year.....*patience* My way of rolling is different to most, I roll 'lightly' and more often, and use a product called coppper peptides, as well as a vegetarian diet and carefully chosen supplements.

Dermarolling will not FIX everything....however it will lessen the appearance of scars, by a %.

You mentioned being 20? I have belief that at such an age your skin is replacing collagen at a terrific rate, and I would expect you could achive signifigant results.

If you choose to roll, I reccomend doing it yourself at home. But NOT if you have any active acne.

Any questions, feel free to ask

I have posted a pic here once... I have also been on tv for skin issues and in a popular magazine... soon im starting a blog site of my experiences including many photos and reviews.

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YES dermarolling does work, ONCE YOU FIND A REGIEME TO SUIT YOUR SKIN>

I am living proof that it works! rolling, combined with individual needling of deeper scars, with the use of products that I did alot of trial and error and research to find.

I designed my own routine, as have many others, and I stuck with it for over a year.....*patience* My way of rolling is different to most, I roll 'lightly' and more often, and use a product called coppper peptides, as well as a vegetarian diet and carefully chosen supplements.

Dermarolling will not FIX everything....however it will lessen the appearance of scars, by a %.

You mentioned being 20? I have belief that at such an age your skin is replacing collagen at a terrific rate, and I would expect you could achive signifigant results.

If you choose to roll, I reccomend doing it yourself at home. But NOT if you have any active acne.

Any questions, feel free to ask

I have posted a pic here once... I have also been on tv for skin issues and in a popular magazine... soon im starting a blog site of my experiences including many photos and reviews.

Take care on your healing journey

Adella

Hey Adella, I would love to know your exact routine, products and supplements. You have alot of knowhow and I'm willing to try whatever you did.

I been looking into to dermaroller for a while but... I just don't know where to start. There is so much information and everyone does it differently.

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Well I have a new hope that something out there will work for me. I ordered a RGB LED light and use that once a day as well as application of CPs once a day. Also I eat lots of pineapple and drink pineapple juice (I heard that contains an enzyme that assists in breaking down scar tissue)? Lastly I massage my cheeks (where the scars are located) about four to five times a week for maybe 20-30 minutes.

Pretty much my goal is to break up the stubborn scar tissue from inside and out while hopefully inspiring new collagen production with the CPs and the light therapy.

I am considering individual needling but have seen on this sight that it actually makes scars look worse, so I am a bit hesitant.

I don't think my scars are tethered down because when I stretch my skin they appear to flatten out.

Any more advice? Do I have a good regimen going? So far I might have seen a very very very small improvement and i have been through one dermaroller treatment a month ago and one month of everything else.